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You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down: Short Stories (Paperback)
Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love
& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love,
lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the
rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.
& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love,
lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the
rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.
ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.
PRAISE FOR YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOODWOMAN DOWN
“Its important, frankly political, semi-taboo subject matter should automatically
make You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down fascinating to anyone.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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